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Some of you may have heard this interview on The Son Rise Morning Show last Friday about religion and Jesus. Check out this link in response “rap” by a Catholic priest “why I love Jesus and love religion” response to an earlier YouTube video “why I hate religion and love Jesus”. The “why I hate religion..” video has been a web sensation with over 18 million hits. The response was done a by a priest, filmed in Chicago and has over 400,000 hits since Friday.

As you know, many of the Thought of the Day notes I send are passed on from my friend Bill Keating. Bill started sending them to his children when his first child went away to college as a way to stay in touch. I got on Bill’s distribution list many years ago and have done the same thing with my children, bride, and friends. It is remarkable how meaningful a daily touch is to the relationships you have with those you love. Hope you are passing them on to family and friends as well.

Today, Bill sent out his 4000th Thought of the Day!

"Life is what you make it, always has been, always will be. Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." – Art Linkletter

"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it." – Lou Holtz

SLOW DANCE Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don’t dance so fast. Time is short. The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done Do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Running through your head? You’d better slow down Don’t dance so fast. Time is short. The music won’t last.

Ever told your child, We’ll do it tomorrow? And in your haste, Not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die Cause you never had time To call and say, "hi" You’d better slow down. Don’t dance so fast. Time is short. The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift…. Thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower Hear the music Before the song is over.